Residents and stakeholders attend a community BBQ on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 to celebrate the Lakeview Waterfront Connection project in south Mississauga. (Photo: Emma Schatochin/QEW South Post)

Mississauga-Lakeshore MP Sven Spengemann, Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Mississauga South MPP Charles Sousa, Ward 1 Coun. Jim Tovey, and Toronto’s Ward 6 Coun. Mark Grimes cut the cake at the ground making of the Lakeview Waterfront Connection on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. “We want to put the ‘view’ back into Lakeview,” said Crombie. (Photo: Emma Schatochin/QEW South Post)

Ward 1 Coun. Jim Tovey and Valerie King of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation speak during a celebration for the Lakeview Waterfront Connection on Sept. 24, 2016. The naturalized conservation area will take an estimated seven to 10 years to complete. (Photo: Irene Owchar/QEW South Post)

A cake depicting south Mississauga’s waterfront transformation was cut by officials on Sept. 24 2016. The project will see 1.5 kms of new shoreline stretching from the old Lakeview generating station to the Toronto border at Marie Curtis Park. (Photo: Irene Owchar/QEW South Post)

Valerie King of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation performs a blessing of the waters with Ward 1 Coun. Jim Tovey, Mississauga-South MPP Charles Sousa, Ward 7 Coun. Nando Iannicca, and Mayor Bonnie Crombie. The blessing took place at the Lakeview Waterfront Connection celebration on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. (Photo: Irene Owchar/QEW South Post)